US Patent Issued to Dragerwerk on April 21 for "Self-describing protocol translation device" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,996, issued on April 21, was assigned to Dragerwerk AG & Co. KGaA (Lubeck, Germany).

"Self-describing protocol translation device" was invented by Michael D. Hirst (Webster, Mass.), Joshua Abell (Beverly, Mass.), John C. Magill (Woburn, Mass.), Andrew T. Provencher (Lowell, Mass.), Brian S. Dolan (Cambridge, Mass.), Justin M. Powell (Danvers, Mass.), Matthew MacDonald (Newburyport, Mass.), Nicholas Comei (Bradford, Mass.) and Ellen Benedict (Andover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and system using same that enables a non-native device to be a self-describing module or communicate in the same protocol as the system pro...